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Updated: May 24, 2025
We must go down directly; but I want you to see Miss Gillespie first. And Jill looked proud and eager as she led me down the passage. The schoolroom was still the same dull back room that Aunt Philippa thought so conducive to her young daughter's studies, but it certainly looked more cheerful this evening. The window was opened. There was a window-box full of gay flowers.
The most luxuriant dug-out; the most artistic window-box these, in spite of all biassed assertions to the contrary, compare unfavourably with a flat in Knightsbridge. On the other hand, the knowledge that you are keeping yourself tolerably immune from the assaults of your enemy is heavily discounted by the fact that the enemy is equally immune from yours.
He smiled charmingly as he went, and looking after him, a minute later, over the clove pinks in the window-box, she saw him turn and gaze back at her from the opposite pavement. On a bright Sunday in October Mrs. Carr stopped on her way from church to tell Mrs. Peyton of Gabriella's engagement.
Here her interest in the caller seemed to cease and she became very much occupied with a business-like addressing of envelopes at a desk in the corner. Desire looked around the cool and pleasant room. It was not like her idea of a doctor's office, save perhaps for a faint clean smell of drugs. There were comfortable chairs, flowers in a window-box, a table with a book or two and some magazines.
Then you will discover that the charm is not confined to the color of the fruit, but to the delicate tracery of branch and twig, as well. Somebody had a bright thought when the window-box came into existence. The only wonder is that persons who were obliged to forego the pleasure of a garden did not think it out long ago. It is one of the "institutions" that have come to stay.
I invest in the plants that are told me to be best adapted to window-box culture. I plant them, and then I coax them and coddle them. I fertilize them and I shower them, but they stubbornly refuse to do well.
There is no doubt that where we all err is in persistently judging others by ourselves. Arthur Agar was keenly aware of his own incompetence in many things he was one of those promising undergraduates who hire a man to water six small plants in a window-box. Incompetence was by him reduced to a science.
Half-way along the narrow alley she turned. "It would be a long way to come if you happened not to be in," she said; "I'll send you a postcard the next time." At the gate she turned again. "Leave here, Paul," she said, with a mournful look. "Everything's wrong with this house." Then she was gone. Oleron returned to his room. He crossed straight to the window-box.
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